Really, ice cream cones and sex scandals seem far apart on the spectrum, but are they? Who am I to judge? It makes me sad in those moments, but then I remember that I am human an it’s okay to have an occasional ice cream cone. It’s as if everything I have ever said about health and wellness means nothing in that moment. God forbid I have a soda, a glass of wine, or an ice cream cone in public. I’ll run into folks at the movies with my bag of popcorn and I think they are nearly going to fall down and die at the deceit. People see me at the gym lifting weights and they are horrified as if I’m cheating on the yoga studios. It’s interesting, sometimes I’ll be out and about in my normal life and I run into people. Be ten times greater than me.” ~ Yogi Bhajan So, if you really want to understand who you are learning from, listen to what they are teaching because it is what they want to master. If you want to master something, teach it.” ~ Yogi Bhajan If you want to understand something, write about it. “If you want to learn something, read about it. Luckily, I found yoga and it has taught me so much about my nature and healed me so much, I share it with you as your teacher. On the flip side of that, I’d probably be in a cave on a mountain top isolated talking to God or worse yet, have found the ultimate union in death. Left to my own devices I’d probably be on the back of a motorcycle somewhere jobless and drunk. Have you ever paused to ask why? Well, I’ll be perfectly honest. You’ve probably figured out by now that I blather on and on about balance and health and wellness. As yoga teachers, we are learning what we teach. In the earlier days of my yoga practice when I was much more rajistic and questioning, I did research the Gurus and Yogi Masters I study and call teacher and the one thing I can tell you without exception is the following: He was also the director of the Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to sharing the teachings of Kundalini yoga around the globe. I have no idea of the truth or untruth of any of it. Harbhajan Singh or Yogi Bhajan as he is known to his followers, was a yogi, spiritual teacher, and entrepreneur, who introduced Kundalini Yoga to the United States. I’m not going to bother with details, and honestly, I’ve never dug into it too deeply because it simply isn’t my nature at this point in my yoga practice. If you google Yogi Bhajan, you hit a lot of articles about sexual and financial scandal. Yogi Bhajan was the Yogi Master who brought Kundalini Yoga to American in the 60s. Inevitably, the emails start coming about Yogi Bhajan. Of course they hit the internet first and start googling away.
They want to know everything about this magical and mystical practice. Because of this, students come to one class, have an amazing and earth shaking experience and then go gang busters on Kundalini. Of all the types of yoga I teach, Kundalini Yoga is the quickest and most transformative. “If you can’t see God in all, you can’t see God at all.” ~ Yogi Bhajan
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